GERM 1171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Caroline Link, Stefanie Zweig, Tom Hanks
4/2/18
Germ 1171
Nowhere in Africa (2002) directed by Caroline Link
Categories of Actors
- Extras
- Stars
- Trained professionals: went to acting school
- Nonprofessional performers
Stage Acting vs. Screen Acting?
Stage Acting
- Act out a role
- Volume of voice, projection
- Lighting
- Can’t be re-filmed
- Has to be believable
- Body movement, use of whole body
- Build a character over duration of scene/play
- Tall => to be easily seen by audience
Screen Acting
- More of a “tool of director”
- Director has the vision
- Have to act “natural”
- Switch on- off emotions
- Expressiveness: short takes, without long rehearsals
- Volume and physical size less relevant
Schools of Acting
- “The Method”/ “The System” (Since 1950s) developed by Constantin Stanislavsky,
Moscow
o Emotional recall
o Triggering analogous feelings
- Improvisation
o Spontaneity
Star System
- What makes a star?
o Recognizable
o Awards
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Document Summary
Nowhere in africa (2002) directed by caroline link. Build a character over duration of scene/play. Tall => to be easily seen by audience. The method / the system (since 1950s) developed by constantin stanislavsky, What makes a star: recognizable, awards, kinds of roles that reflect society. Celebrity plays the same sort of character. Main reasons: war, political persecution- refugees, econ destitution better life. Hierarchy based on race: superiority, inferiority. Definition: any action, practice, belief that reflects the racial world view- ideology, that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities. Race : that there is a casual link between inherit physical traits, some races are innately superior to others. Race, gender, age, religion, class, sexual orientation that people should be treated differently based on gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, religion, ideology: one is superior to others. Nowhere in africa autobiographical novel by stefanie zweig. Best grossing film in germany in 2002.
